Today at Google I/O, we announced many enhancements to
Google Apps Script to help you build richer applications and share
your apps with users. Apps Script began as a tool for helping users get more done with
their Google spreadsheets. Over time, Apps Script has grown to handle
much more. It's a platform to extend Google spreadsheets and
Sites, and a convenient way to create web applications.

We launched script.google.com as
a destination for Apps Script developers. You can now create scripts
from script.google.com or from Google Drive. Plus, your projects are now
stored in Google Drive, and you can share them just like a Google
document or spreadsheet.

HtmlService can help you create beautiful interfaces using Apps
Script. HtmlService allows you to create web apps using HTML,
client-side JavaScript, and CSS. You can also use jQuery to build web
apps. HtmlService uses Google Caja to
ensure that the HTML content served by your web apps is saferfor
you and your users.

We also launched a better way to store your
application's data, ScriptDb. Every script now has an embedded JSON database. You no
longer have to rely on a spreadsheet to store the data. Using
ScriptDb, you can store a larger volume of data and search easily. We
designed ScriptDb to be easy to use. It doesn't need connection
strings or special passwords, and you can directly store and search
your JavaScript objects without the need to convert them to a
different format. You can learn more about ScriptDb
on the Google Apps Script Developers page.

There are also now more options for deploying your web
app. Your apps can now, with authorization, run as the user behind
the keyboard, not just the script owner. This brings a new level of
versatility to web apps built with Apps Script.

Finally, we wanted to make it easy to
distribute your apps. You can nowpublish
your apps in the Chrome Web Store. Register and
package your app directly from the Publish menu in Google Apps
Script. Then customize your listing from the Chrome Web Store and
publish your app to the world.